Summary:
Loogootee, Indiana is a small community served by three public schools in the Loogootee Community School Corp: Loogootee Elementary School (grades K–4, 310 students), Loogootee Middle School (grades 5–8, 223 students), and Loogootee High School (grades 9–12, 229 students), for a total enrollment of 762. The district is rated 76th of 374 Indiana districts, placing it in the 80th percentile with 4 stars.
The K–8 schools are the district's strongest performers. Loogootee Elementary School ranks at the 78th percentile with 4 stars, led by 4th grade science at 72.55% proficient versus 43.8% statewide and all-grade math at 64.55%. Loogootee Middle School ranks at the 77th percentile with 4 stars, with 6th grade ELA at 63.46% versus 41.3% statewide and all-grade ELA at 53.71%, above the district's 51.33%. Their strengths are complementary rather than identical: the elementary excels in math and science, the middle in English language arts. Both keep chronic absenteeism low — 9.8% and 9.5% — well under the state's 16.7%.
Loogootee High School is the exception. It slipped to the 61st percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, down from 4 stars, with SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing at 43.48% versus 51.9% statewide and SAT Math at 15.22% versus 25.6%; both fell year over year. Positives remain: a 93.8% graduation rate versus 89.7% statewide and Biology at 70.45%. Notably, the high school spends $13,104 per student — about $3,100 more than each of the other two — without matching their results. Its chronic absenteeism, 13.0%, is the district's highest but still below the state's 16.7%.
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